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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1988

"AND I THINK WE WOULD WISH TO BE ABLE TO SEE THAT THERE HAD BEEN A SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION BEFORE WE WENT INTO ANOTHER ROUND OF TALKS," SIR DAVID ADDED.

SIR DAVID ALSO DESCRIBED THE JUNIOR POLICE CALL MOVEMENT HONG KONG AS "MARVELLOUS".

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"IT IS A REAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE COMMUNITY'S WILLINGNESS ΤΟ FIGHT CRIME AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S ABILITY TO BECOME INVOLVED. HE SAID.

"WE DO STILL HAVE THE JUVENILE CRIME PROBLEM IN HONG KONG, NOT

AS BAD AS IT IS IN OTHER PLACES IN THE WORLD.'

"BUT WE DO HAVE TO TRY TO INCULCATE INTO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE THE NEED TO AVOID GETTING THEMSELVES INTO CRIMINAL COMPANY AND BECOMING INVOLVED WITH CRIMINAL ELEMENTS," HE STRESSED.

JPC MEMBERS' ROLE IN FIGHT AGAINST CRIME PRAISED

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THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID FORD, PRAISED JUNIOR POLICE CALL MEMBERS FOR THEIR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME WHEN HE VISITED THE JPC SUMMER CAMP AT THE CHINESE YMCA YOUTH VILLAGE THIS WEDNESDAY) MORNING.

ACCOMPANIED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR RAYMON ANNING, SIR DAVID ARRIVED BY HELICOPTER AT THE CAMP WHERE HE WAS GREETED BY A JPC BAND AND THE 1,600 CAMPERS WHO PERFORMED A WORD DISPLAY TO WELCOME THEIR PROMINENT GUESTS.

ADDRESSING THE YOUNG CAMPERS, SIR DAVID SAID HE, AS CHAIRMAN OF THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE, WAS PLEASED TO LEARN THAT THE THEME FOR THE CAMP WAS "FIGHT YOUTH CRIME",

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"OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, WE HAVE SEEN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE RATE OF CRIME COMMITTED BY YOUNG PEOPLE, AND, WHILE OUR PROBLEM IS MINOR WHEN COMPARED WITH MANY OTHER CITIES, WE MUST BE VIGILANT IN TACKLING THIS PROBLEM, SAID SIR DAVID.

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TO COINCIDE WITH THE "FIGHT YOUTH CRIME' THEME, THERE ARE EXPERT TALKS, EXHIBITIONS, A SPEECH CONTEST, DISCUSSIONS AND SEMINARS ΤΟ PROMOTE THE YOUNG PARTICIPANTS AWARENESS IN COMBATING CRIME.

SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT MANY OF THE CRIMES COMMITTED BY YOUNG PEOPLE WERE MINOR, BUT EXPERIENCE SHOWED THAT MOST IN A SMALL WAY BEFORE COMMITTING SERIOUS OFFENCES.

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